Ticket-case



J. L. KIRK.

TICKET CASE.

(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 2

.a L k J Units STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH L. KlBK, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

TICKET-CASE.

O SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,708, datedFebruary 20, 1883. Application filed August 31, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom 2t may concern:

Be it known that I,JOSEPH L. KIRK,0fPittS burg, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Ticket-Gases; and do hereby declare that theiollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is aperspective of one of the ticketboxes partly filled with tickets. Fig. 2is a transverse section of a portion of a case having two boxes inposition. Fig. 3 is afront elevation of a case with the ticket-boxes inplace.

The object of this invention is to provide a ticket-case which can bereadily filled or emptied, or in which the individual ticket-boxes canbe withdrawn and contents counted or replaced, and, in short, in whichany individual ticket-box can be handled, as desired, without in any waydisturbing or interfering with the others.

My invention accordingly consists in an individual ticket-box to containa number of tickets of the same kind, adapted to stand normally in aninclined position, andmeaus for hanging said box independently in thecontaining-case; further, in the combination of a case having suitablesuspending devices with a group or series of such individual boxes, allsubstantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

The individual ticket-box A, I construct out of sheet metal, preferably.Its top is open, as in Fig. 1, and parallel with the bottom. The backend is inclined, so that when hung with the back in a Vertical line thebox will stand at an inclination downwardly toward its front, forming achute, in which the tickets a are placed on end, facing outwardly. Thesides I) of the box, at the open front, are turned inwardly to form thestop-lips c, as shown, and the front edge of the bottom is cut away, asat d, Fig. 2, to permit the passage downwardly of a single ticket. Theupper part of the trout has a piece, 6, set on, upon which the price ofthe tickets of that individual box is marked, or upon which thestation-number may be placed.

The back of the box A is provided with the hook f, which is mostconveniently made by bending the top edge of the back, as shown. Asuitable case, D, is made of whatever size the circumstances may demand.Along the back of the case D, I place a series of horizontal bars, h,formed as shown, to receive the hooks fof the various boxes A; orindividual sockets may be placed separately for the respective boxes.Horizontal bars tare placed across thecase D, near its front, in suchposition as to act as supports for the boxes A when the latter arehooked onto the bars h or sockets. One bar i thus acts to support awhole horizontal row of the boxes A. The weight 0 in each box is of awedge shape, having its front so inclined with reference to its fiatbottom that when the bottom rests on the bottom of the box A the frontis iii line with the rearmost ticket. The weight is heavy enough toovercome its own friction and that of the tickets, so as to always forcethe tickets a forward to the front of the box. This peculiar form of thefront and bottom of the weight 0 is of great advantage. In press ing thethumb or finger against the frontticket to withdraw it downwardly, aspring gives way, while a rolling weight rolls backwardly; but my fiatweight, by its friction and by the downward pressure exerted through thein-' fluence of the inclined plane and triangular form, is not moved bythe manual pressure,and the tickets never retreat, so that the front onecan always be taken out at the first attempt. The shape of the rear ofthe weight is immaterial. in fact, a plate of lead or iron bent toconform to the front and bottom shown in the drawings will answer thesame purpose.

The advantages of arranging the individual boxes A independently in thecase are various. This arrangement enables me to take out any one boxthe moment it is empty and refill it without the trouble of removingothers, and, similarly, in auditing or counting up the contents of acase, each box can be lifted outand disposed of separately.

instead of having the bottom of the wedge afiat continuous surface, itmay be formed with grooves or depressions in any desired number ordirection.

Where a large number of one kind of tickets are being sold, my case hasthe advantage that that particular box may be taken out and set ingdevice at the rear and a supporting; de-

witbin more convenient reach of the ticketvice at or near its front end,whereby each x5 agent. may be so hung in the case as to stand in an 1claim as my invention inclined position and form a chute, and each 1.The ticket-box A, provided with,a hook, may be removed by li ting it offits suspendf, at its rear end, in combination with a bar ing device,substantially as described.

or socket, h, bar i, and a case, D, substantially In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing as 20 as described. my own I have hereto affixed mysignature in 2. A ticket-case, in combination with a sepresence of twowitnesses.

1o ries of two OI more individual ticket-boxes, in- JOSEPH L. KIRK.

dependent from one another and separately Witnesses:

removable from said case, said boxes being T. J. MGTIGHE,

each independently provided with a suspend- T. J. PATTERSON.

